Best Practise Approach to Discover Business Rules

It is important to understand, results of the business rules optimization process are input into the discovery process in the first phase of a business rule project. In a second phase the optimization results are input into the business rule modelling process. Business rules governance is a higher-level process and influences all other process inside the Lifecycle.

One of the most important processes inside this lifecycle is the location of all relevant business rules and the description of those rules. This process is called business rules discovery process. Let’s have a look at some details of this process.

One of the business rules bibles is written by Barbara von Halle. She describe in her book “Business Rules Applied“ the most significant characteristics of the rule discovery process as follows: